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Father's occupation
« on: Friday 08 August 25 16:36 BST (UK) »
Can anyone decipher the occupation of the father in the snip of this baptism record please? The entry is from the parish of St Nicholas in Aberdeen in October 1761

I have the whole entry as:

Robt. Whytet Clerk to the Gordon ?miln? Company by Helen N?ol his
spouse had a Daur born named Catharine; bapt by the revd Mr
Principal Campbell in presence of Jno Brodie excise officer & George Stra:
:ban Maltster.

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Re: Father's occupation
« Reply #1 on: Friday 08 August 25 17:44 BST (UK) »
I am assuming he is a Clerk at Gordon’s miln Company.
Is that what you mean?

If you search, ‘miln’ or ‘mylne’ is an old word for ‘ mill’.

Other searches show references to Gordon’s in this context.
See page 15 here:
https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/242671/2/242671.pdf
‘Another bleach field advertisement in 1759 for the Gordon’s Milns Company …’
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Re: Father's occupation
« Reply #2 on: Friday 08 August 25 18:47 BST (UK) »
According to the baptism entry on Scotland's People her mother's maiden name is Nicol
Smith Tiplady Boulton Branthwaite King Miller Woolfall Bretherton Archer and many more

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Re: Father's occupation
« Reply #3 on: Friday 08 August 25 21:43 BST (UK) »
Quote from: heywood on Friday 08 August 25 17:44 BST (UK)
I am assuming he is a Clerk at Gordon’s miln Company.
Is that what you mean?

If you search, ‘miln’ or ‘mylne’ is an old word for ‘ mill’.

Other searches show references to Gordon’s in this context.
See page 15 here:
https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/242671/2/242671.pdf
‘Another bleach field advertisement in 1759 for the Gordon’s Milns Company …’

Many thanks for that. I was unsure if "miln" was an abbreviation for something or even if I was misreading it. If Robert and Helen Nicol is the correct couple his occupation in 1759 and 1764 is a weaver in Perth. Being a Clerk and a reasonably senior one in Aberdeen, if I am taking this correctly, didn't seem to match. I suppose if the company is a fabric mill, which newspapers seem to suggest, it is possible.... :-\ The number of variations of spelling for any Robert and Helen Nicol couple I can find is not helping!

Thanks again to you and emeltom
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O'Neill, Curry, Dunbar, Crichton

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Re: Father's occupation
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 06:58 »
Hi, you had me intrigued by the reference to 1759, Weddit is not a spelling I would have thought of.
Perhaps the difference between weaver and Weaver, in business for himself having learned the commercial side in Aberdeen?
Interested because of the name obviously, is that them getting married in 1751?

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Nicoll, Small - Scotland Dennis - Lincolnshire, Baldwin - Notts. Gordon, Fletcher Deeside

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Re: Father's occupation
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 07:35 »
Here's your Rob at work -
Aberdeen Press and Journal, 6 Apr 1761
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